It could be a difference in culture too, I know in America working 2 jobs is more common than it should be just to make ends meet, here a 40-45 hour / week job is pretty much standard and it's quite rare for people to be on double jobs or work 70-80 hours a week unless you're a boss or have your own firm, or you're some sort of misfit who is miserable outside work so you just want to work work. I would say my job has its good days and bad days - working in a warehouse so depending on what sort of task I do for the day (like driving forklift/truck or other assignments) I might be drained at the end of the day or feel okay about it.
For me it's not so much the physical side that's the hard part, if that was the only challenge I could probably put in 80 hours in a week just for the flex. What I meant with the 'mental roadblock' of going into a 6 day work week is more the feeling of knowing you gotta wait almost a full week to do something in your spare time that you look forward to. From my own perspective, Saturday is really the only 100% chill day of the week as well because you know the next day is off work as well - Sunday despite being a free day is unfortunately spent mostly thinking "oh crap its work again tomorrow" for me at least - which I know is very subjective.
I guess at the end of the day you work because you need money to function in society with paying the bills, having roof over your head and food on the table, and after that maybe you can treat yourself to a vacation once a year or a new TV or something else whenever you feel you need a 'boost'. I guess for me when you start talking about working 70-80 hours a week it becomes a "what is really the point with that lifestyle?". If you need it to make ends meet then fine (though that's kinda sad you have to sacrifice so much of your life just to make the hamster wheel go around) but yeah I guess my mindset has always been that time is more valuable than money in some cases.
Heck, here in Europe they're even talking about shortening the 8-9 hour work day to 6 hours in some countries (i think they might even have started). I know this is a separate discussion entirely but even in a 9 hour work day sometimes it feels like there's a lot of fluff you could trim and the discussions about a 6 hour work day being more efficient is something I can sort of buy.
Cheers for elaborating and as Tim said being a good sport about us busting your balls.
I totally get all that mate, and as I said, if you can simply choose the 40 hour 5 day week, good on you.
The first bold part, I get it, but I guess that's life. Again, that's a ME problem, peoples thresholds are different. It's funny, one summer I did close to 3 months without a single day off. When the off season came, having 2 days off felt like an entire vacation.
I guess I need to be mindful about others way of thinking, mine's a bit different.
That second bolded part is a concern. I used to do this when things were really tough, but soon realised it was getting me nowhere. I was stressing myself and wasting time off when I had to go back to work anyway. I had to go back so why stress myself when I wasn't there. Madness. If you can't do something about this, maybe it's time to look at a different job is making you feel that way, I don't know.
Again, a ME problem and I get it. Hey, I should be dead right now so my post above is something I'm coming to terms with myself and reflecting on what I've done for years and if it's been worth it and if I do need to change. So if you have the ability to choose a stock standard work week, go for it, just don't waste the time you're not there.